FORMULA 1 LENOVO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2025 - Suzuka......Practice 1-2-3...... ▄▀▄▀▄▀ SPOILERS ▄▀▄▀▄▀

FA beached lol - Red Flag

 

New Red Flag for Prac 2 - Grass on fire lol.

 

Crazy stuff

 

didn't that happen in China last year?

 

Racing Bs faster than Red Bs

poor Yuki

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maybe it's the car....

maybe max is paying the other half of the garage to tweak things....

Lawson is like...damn, I dodged this clusterF***

sjd

 

Here' s hoping that Colapinto will soon replace Doohan. That guy doesn't belong in F1.

 

Not a lot of running time. As an example Max only did nine laps. Of course this didn't stop McLaren from establishing superiority . . . again.

 

FP 2 was the opposite of FP1. I couldn't tell who was trying to what in the 2nd session.

 

Can someone explain what on earth that is about?

 

Looked like a hard hit.

 

fp2 was kinda a wash with the flags

 

Probably Lewis plank sparking down to illegal thickness.

 

I had said earlier that the Racing Bull right now is a better car. You have decent drivers who are as fast as Max in the Redbull. If Max had the Racing Bull who would have had a win so far.

 

F1 Tech | Why McLaren's performance on Friday should scary closest rivals
18:00, 04 APR
byfrancesco bianchi

FP1 was the only indicative session of the Friday at Suzuka: and McLaren seem to be the quickest with a decent gap to Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull, which are all very close to each other. Let’s try to analyse every team’s performance.

McLaren on a planet of their own
Starting from McLaren, the team used the first practice to test two slightly different set-up configurations from a mechanical point of view: Norris drove a stiffer car in terms of suspension stiffness, while Piastri adopted a softer set-up.

This aspect inevitably affected the way the MCL39 behaved along the 5.807 km Suzuka Circuit, especially during the fast lap simulations both on the medium and on the soft tyre: being stiffer, Norris’ car was way quicker in the first sector, which is characterised by a sequence of high-speed corners and thus requires a very stable aerodynamic platform and a reactive front end, but lost out to his teammate in all slow speed corners.

The Briton, in particular, struggled at the last chicane, as his MCL39 was sliding massively whenever it came off the kerbs.

On the other hand, Piastri ran a softer set-up, which gave him the advantage in the slow speed and medium speed corners to his teammate: his MCL39 was flying especially in the last sector, being very clean and reactive through the last chicane, exactly where Norris was struggling.

However, the soft set-up didn’t pay dividends in the first part of the track, as he was losing most of the time to Norris there.

As a consequence, for FP2 the team searched and found the right compromise between these two set-ups: looking at the onboards, in fact, both drivers’ cars looked much more stable through the esses in the first sector (where they were still losing less than a tenth to Russell and Hamilton) and through both medium speed and slow speed corners.

Particularly impressive, was the fact that both Norris and Piastri gained most of the time on their rivals in sectors 2 and 3, proof that the car was not only the quickest in corners but was also able to make the soft tyres last for the whole lap.

Moreover, the MCL39 seemed much more drivable for the drivers this afternoon and expressed high levels of downforce in all kinds of corners, proof that the team found the perfect set-up to make the car work in its ‘sweet-spot’.

 

Lordy that McLaren is fast. It will be anyone’s guess for qualifying tomorrow between Ferrari and Mercedes otherwise.

man that fire was spreading QUICK. like pack your bags in the palisades of California level quick
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Dry grass is flammable,
F1 cars put off lots of sparks from the titanium damage mitigation plates,
Mix thoroughly;
Presto flames.

 

The DRS got stuck stuck on his Alpine; what was Doohan supposed to do?

 

I watched only the highlight after saw more clips and I get it. Thanks though!

 

red flag- more grass fires

 

rare moment I agree with JV....set it all on fire and get it over with

 

FWIW: the Tag Heuer "watch face" clock looks horrible.

 

Yuki decent pace in FP3